six favorite artists?

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Max Ernst
Albrecht Durer
Vincent Van Gogh
HR Giger
Diego Rivera
Jackson Pollock

[Ken B]

Paintings you mean?

Giotto
Van Gogh
Rembrandt
Caravaggio
Anonymous (I am thinking of Pompeii)

Two countries...

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Paintings you mean?

visual artists - painters, sculptors or whatever

[Ken B]

visual artists - painters, sculptors or whatever

I'll let Anonymous cover the ancient Greeks and Romans and toss in Bernini for sculpture and architecture.

I've stepped (lightly) on Bernini.

[North Star]

Rembrandt
Turner
Constable
Monet
Van Gogh
Goya


Bonus round:

Eugène Atget
Bill Brandt
Josef Sudek
Ansel Adams
Minor White
Irving Penn

[springrite]

Rothko
Van Gogh
Pollock
Degas
Paul Klee
Turner

[Hollywood]

Alphonse Mucha
John Everett Millais
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William Morris Hunt (he is my 2nd cousin, 5 times removed)
Norman Rockwell
Gustav Klimt

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James Ensor
Georges Rouault
Caspar David Friedrich
Rene Magritte
Louis Corinth

Are we allowed sculptors?

Donatello (The Prophet Habakkuk - my favourite work of art of all time - including music)
Sir Jacob Epstein
Ossip Zadkine (mainly for his 'Monument Commemorating the Destruction of Rotterdam')
Henry Moore
Rodin (Monument to Balzac)

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Rothko
Van Gogh
Pollock
Degas
Paul Klee
Turner

Those Rothko's in the Tate Gallery in London I find incredibly powerful and moving. Also agree with late Turner - a truly revolutionary artist and VG's late 'Cornfield with Crows' and 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear' (Courtauld Gallery, London) which I have seen many times.

[Florestan]

One per nation

Fra Angelico
El Greco
Watteau
Caspar David Friedrich
Turner
Aivazovsky

Honorary mention, whoever painted this:



and this:



Click on images for info.

[Florestan]

Donatello (The Prophet Habakkuk - my favourite work of art of all time - including music)

How come? 

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Bruegel
Mondrian
Escher
H. Moore
Felguerez
Dubuffet

[André Le Nôtre]

Atget (the true connoisseur's choice!    )
Van Gogh
Monet
Rothko (you HAVE TO see them in person)
Michelangelo
Edward Steichen (especially the earlier photos)


BONUS ROUND

André Le Nôtre (mais oui!)
Abraham Louis Breguet
All those poor dead nameless guys who built gothic masterpieces like Chartres, Notre Dame, Reims, York Minster cathedrals
Ansel Adams
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe/Paul Renner/Walter Gropius/MaxBill/Eero Saarinen 
Maxfield Parrish


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Utagawa Hiroshige   

[Symphonic Addict]

1. Michelangelo Buonarroti




2. Ilya Repin




3. Antoni Stradivari (if applies)




4. Pawel Kuczyński




And the architect(s) of these wonders:

5.




6.

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2. Ilya Repin

Majestic technique

[Symphonic Addict]

Majestic technique

Indeed, the realism is almost total. The combination of colors is nothing short of perfectionist.